Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.